Interesting Links for September 2nd

Links that I have found interesting for September 2nd:

• TBSM v4.x- Remove Edit Pencil in Viewpoint – directions to change default to maximize and refresh without edit (pencil) for all users
• alphaWorks : Performance Analysis Tool for Java : Overview – What is IBM Performance Analyzer for Java?

  When CPU resource is constraining a system, it's crucial to find threads that consume most of CPU resources. IBM Performance Analyzer for Java® analyzes Windows performance log and IBM Java thread dumps to help you identify Java threads that consume the most CPU resouces.

  Unlike other performance tools that are widely available, IBM Performance Analyzer for Java does not employ profiling, has a low overhead dependency, and greatly reduces the likelihood of possible down time when concurrently running the profiler.

  These features makes this tool particularly attractive for production environments, where starting and stopping to evaluate the performance results can greatly harm one's productivity.

• developerWorks : Tivoli : Tivoli Common Reporting – Tips and Techniques : Tips and Techniques slides posted … – Tips and Techniques slides to answer some How-To questions about BIRT and TCR uploaded to developerworks.
• Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager V7.1 – In this IBM® Redbooks® publication, we describe the capabilities and ways to use the IBM Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM). It is becoming critical for enterprises to track the IT resources in their environment and, more importantly, the dependencies of their business applications on various components. TADDM provides rich capabilities that discover the components of a complex infrastructure and their interdependencies.

  In this book, we provide insight into the TADDM V7.1 capabilities and architecture. We include recommended procedures for installing and configuring TADDM, tips and techniques for populating the TADDM database and customizing its use and performance considerations.

  Finally, we cover the sales engagement planning for TADDM V7.1, including a sample statement of work. The primary audience for this section is Business Partners and pre-sales Systems Engineers working in this area.

• JBoss SOA Governance: Project Overlord: How does SAM relate to the world? – For instance, how does SAM related to Business Service Management (BSM)? Well according to the common definitions of BSM, it is aimed at helping users (e.g., administrators, project managers) inform their management software which services, tasks etc. are the most important for the business. BSM then enables them to correlate the performance and availability of those systems with their business goals, identifying when an application, service etc. is not behaving as expected. Through some magic, the BSM identifies the cause(s) of the breach in contract and how to fix it (them).
• JBoss SOA Governance: Project Overlord: We know the answer, but what was the question? – To SAM the infrastructure exists but is irrelevant, too. Things that happen inside or outside your company can be relevant to the business. SAM just makes it visible to you and raises your attention.
• JBoss SOA Governance: Project Overlord: Goodbye BAM/BI, hello SAM/SI – Therefore, within the Overlord project we are working on Service Activity Monitoring (SAM) and associated Service Intelligence (SI), which will provide an architecture (and corresponding infrastructure) that brings together many different approaches to entity monitoring within distributed systems (where an entity could be a service, a machine, a network link or something else entirely) and particularly SOIs. The emergence of event processing has also seen an impact on this general entity monitoring, where some implementations treat failure, slowness to respond etc. as particular events. This uniform monitoring includes the following:

  • Message throughput (the number of messages a service can process within a unit of time).
  • Service availability (whether or not the service is active).
  • Service Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) and Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR).
  • Information about where messages are sent.

• BMC Software Launches Industry's Most Comprehensive Virtualization Management Solutions – MarketWatch – "Our competitors continue to focus on the hardware aspects of virtualization. That's understandable when you're primarily a hardware company, but it nevertheless still misses the customer's real issue," said Kia Behnia, cto for BMC's Enterprise Service Management business unit. "From a software standpoint, they offer little more than reactive monitoring of individual virtual machines (VMs). Their products file an alert when a major business service outage has already occurred, which is a little late. In contrast, BMC's comprehensive solutions proactively manage the entire physical and virtual infrastructure (VI) with solutions that prevent business service outages, improving customer satisfaction while driving down costs."

  ** Sounds great! Is there a consolidated BSM interface? How many products to get to the expected value? **

• Interview: HP’s virtualization services honcho John Bennett on ‘rethinking virtualization’ | Dana Gardner’s BriefingsDirect | ZDNet.com – But, it’s always driven from a business perspective — what is the benefit to the business, both quantitative and qualitative — and then drilling down. … I want to be able to drill down from the business processes and the business service management and automation tools into the infrastructure management, which in turn drills down into the infrastructure itself.

  ** Talking the right talk, but where does this all come together in the HP suite? **

• ASG Announces New Developments in its Integrated Content Management Suite – ASG's BSP content-oriented offerings (BSP for Content Management; BSP for Mobius Management) are fully integrated offerings that help organisations gain control of their information, content processes, and supporting infrastructureall in one, comprehensive solution. Combining the best of portal technology, reporting, analytics, output, document, and enterprise archiving and records management, ASG's BSP Content-focused solutions ensure the fast and easy flow of verifiable, businesscritical information throughout an enterprise.

  The solutions enable Business Service Management (BSM) by dynamically linking contentcentric business services to the underlying IT infrastructure. This connection is crucial for missioncritical processes such as claimsprocessing, HR processes, loan approval, compliance initiatives, and estatement delivery, which mandate a fusion of business and IT processes.